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K. Flay Quotes

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

K. Flay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1985

Topics

People Hip-Hop Started Whole Kids

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

Ruben Blades

People Disappointment Thought Gone

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

Russ Feingold

Work Integrity Job Work Hard Law

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

Time Luck Writing Control Random

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

Joyce Maynard

Time Challenge Money Job Writing

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.

Jason Reynolds

School Reading Connections Creating

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

Javier Bardem

Choices Make Any Formula Truly

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

Dhani Harrison

Music Me Plan Want Over Without

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

David Weber

Hat Space People World Think Done

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Colin Trevorrow

School People You Teach Film Public

Touring is great because I love to travel.

Colin Donnell

Love Great Travel Because Touring

Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

Anurag Kashyap

America Country India London Clean

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.

Susan L. Taylor

Mother Money Tomorrow College Road